How Twitter can teach you ArchiCAD
How does one go about learning ArchiCAD? Joining Twitter to follow one particular ArchiCAD guru is a good start.
Ten Years of ArchiCAD Talk Forum
I can't believe that the ArchiCAD Talk Forum is ten years old. That's amazing. As is the fact that many of the original experts are still active. Thank You!
ArchiCAD Heroes
Shoegnome would never have existed if I wasn't such a huge fan of Onland.info. I've gushed over James Murray's blog before. He stopped updating his site about the time I started writing mine, so I feel a responsibility to carry
All the Changes in ArchiCAD 16 that we love, but won’t be Advertised
There are a lot of little tweaks in every version of ArchiCAD that don't get top billing. Or any billing at all. Yet some of these changes are huge and exciting for us nerdy, obsessive users. There is a great
BIM Components and the ArchiCAD Facebook Page (and Pacifiers)
Today ArchiCAD posted a comment on their facebook page: Do you have object ideas to expand the available GDL content on BIMcomponents.com? Let us know in a comment here! Some of your wishes will be programmed by professional GDL developers and
Adventures in GDL – guest blogger Jeroen de Bruin talks about being a GDL Specialist
My adventure started after finishing a bachelor in architecture and working in several architects' offices. I found that drafting in 2D really annoyed me: First draw the floor plan, then the elevations, manually add in shadows… and then the architect
ArchiCAD School 2012/2013 in the USA?
There's been a lot of talk on LinkedIn about trying to do an ArchiCAD School similar to the Spring / Summer / Winter Schools that are done in Europe. What level of interest is there for doing one in the
All the Changes in ArchiCAD 15 that we love, but won’t be Advertised
Most of us have read about ArchiCAD 15 on the ArchicadWiki. If you want a refresher, read this and also the official changes guide. Many of us are even using ArchiCAD 15 on a daily basis and enjoying the new
Do You remember when the Explore Model method of navigating in 3D first appeared?
While doing some research for an article I wrote for ArchiMAG, I found an amazing forum post from the release of version 10. Take a quick walk down memory lane. It's too bad Graphisoft took out that functionality with the first ArchiCAD
A great Spanish language ArchiCAD Blog (don’t worry Google Translate is here to help)
Last week I tweeted (@shoegnome) and posted on facebook (www.facebook.com/shoegnome) a link to an old post I did. Here it is. It was a short post about two things. There were some great tips from the ArchiCAD Forum. Real little
Rabbit Hole Blog
Okay. Time to learn GDL. Check out Rabbit Hole Falling into GDL. It's a new blog with a beautiful name by ArchiCAD-Talk regular Erich. It was started just last month (January 2011). There are only 3 posts so far, but
Paintings and Frames
There are a couple ways to hang a picture in an ArchiCAD project. There is an object which I can never find in the library when I look for it. There's also the object mentioned in this forum post. My
When did that happen? / I forgot about that!
I finally started a project in version 14 today. It's probably more accurate to say I got distracted from working on my first version 14 project and spent time transferring over my version 11 template. The task is a little more
Dashed Lines, Crazy Ramps, and Trees
The other users on the ArchiCAD-Talk Forum never cease to surprise and amaze me. There's so much to be learned from them. Here's my three favorite posts from the past few days. Dashed Lines on adjoining slabs I never knew ArchiCAD could
5 Minutes on the Forum makes us all (look) Smart
Take a few minutes and check out the techniques mentioned on this post as well as this one on the ArchiCAD-Talk forum. I highly recommend setting up a keyboard shortcut for the command mentioned in the second post. I have set